Posted on 12/24/2005 10:43:36 AM PST by PatrickHenry
Let us hear it for intelligent redesign. For example, how about 4 legs and 2 arms. An eye in the back of the head would be handy.
The problem with this suggestion is that ID, at its very heart, is anti-science. These jerks will never get their act together because their basic premise is flawed.
Is that Donny Osmond in the middle? My laptop has a smaller viewing screen. LOL!!!
Where's that fish with two mouths?
or
Try this again:
http://home.comcast.net/~phantomworker/two_mouth_fish1.jpg
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/InNews/genes2004.htm
The Ars Technica discussion following the article is a fascinating read as well. I have been "on" Ars Technica for years now. Fantastic website.
There's another dynamic at work, here, which is best exemplified by Walt Whitman's famous poem When I Heard the Learned Astronomer.
Whitman sneers at the astronomer's learning, implicitly claiming a higher appreciation in his ignorance by assuming that the astronomer has lost the ability to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of the stars. Too high a price to pay for knowledge, sniffs the poet.
I've always felt, though, that Whitman's self-congratulation was a defense mechanism in reaction to his own envy. The astronomer has undoubtedly not lost his appreciation of the night sky as an object of beauty. First, he loved it enough to devote his life's labor to it. Second, he spends much more of his time gazing upon it and contemplating it than any poet. Whitman's envy, born of a very well-placed fear, is that the astronomer appreciates the heavens at a level that is beyond the poet's reach. Any fool can say that something looks pleasant, but it takes a connoisseur--an amateur, in the original sense of the word--to understand it.
So, too, the biologist and the physicist appreciates God's handiwork, whether or not it handiwork be, than the ignorant shamanist possibly can. What matters more to the artist: that the viewer understands his painting's meaning and appreciates his technique, or that the viewer gets his name right?
So a leftist judicial tyrant with an agenda is a dispassionate observer? right.
Damn! There it goes again; Now the GrandMaster at DarwinCentral™ is going to have to pay triple time to get a techie to come out to the Galopagos Islands on a holidy to fix that flakey encryption module I've been complaining about!
NEW Nobel Laureates in defense of evolution.. Thirty-eight Nobel Prize winners write to Kansas Bd. Of Education.
Another service of Darwin Central, the conspiracy that cares.
Well, that certainly didn't work out right.
Maybe the part where he says the dissenters may refer to the decision as being the product of an "activist judge."
By inserting the language concerning activism and judge in the ruling, the judge was indeed editorializing; that is a point separate from the merits of the case.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones is a Conservative, a Bush appointee and a Christian. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the ID Holly Warriors immediately started spreading lies about him. Hey, but any lie that furthers the "cause" is righteous, isn't it?
If you guys keep this up, "AAPatriot" is going show up from the land of banned FReepers to accuse all of us of being NSA agents!
"COLD BUSTED!" indeed...
;-)
I kind of like it. Reminds me of a proof in mathematical statistics! LOL!
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